“Community” and “church”most
of us assume we know what these words mean, but do we really? Marva Dawn,
noted theologian, author and Teaching Fellow at Regent College in Vancouver,
B.C., contends that these words and others used in discussions of faith
have lost their weight. Because of mishandling, misapplication and trivialization,
some important words have lost their meaning. In this lecture, Dawn will
redefine tainted words and renew the weight of lost words by recovering
biblical insights and by prompting surprising turns away from cultural
assumptions and conditionings. By comprehending the depth of words like
“community” and “church,” we will be forced to review our perspective
on some long-held beliefs.